I'm a new proud owner of an iMac 21.5

Hello, I'm a new proud owner of an iMac 21.5. Formerly G5 owner who frequently visited the
Power Mac forums. Due to finances it took a while to move on to a better computer and I was having so many issues w/my G5 that I couldn't stand to deal w/it anymore after several fixes resulting in more hassle.
So now, moving on I plan to take much better care of this baby and check up on any issues resulting from downloading, updating, n general maintenance.
I took it out of the box and have already updated to 10.6.3
So now what, (I'm seeing a huge list of software updates from the drop down menu)...

The only advantage to doing updates from Apple's website is if you have skipped multiple updates on the OS itself, in this case you would use the Combo update. For example if you got Snow Leopard which is 10.6 and skipped updates to 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 but wanted to go to 10.6. In that case you would download the 10.6.3 Combo update. The Combo update is recommended in this case because it includes information from 10.6.1 & 10.6.2. BTW it isn't necessary to do a Permissions Repair with every update, however it won't do any harm either. The only time it's really recommended when doing updates is if it's an update to the OS itself for example an update from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3, on other updates it's probably a waste of time.
If you follow Software Update you won't have any problems, just check it weekly, follow any update instructions and your system will run smoothly.

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Hello everyone-
I am a new ThinkPad owner. I purchased a used T40 recently and love it. I installed Windows7 on it (it came with W7, but I wiped the hard drive clean and re-installed).
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Hope this helps.
Cheers,
George
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950
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Congratulations on your investment in a Mac. You're life is truly about to be very simplified. You're going to love your new iBook. I know I do! People always contemplate Mac as being a great platform or not but it usually comes down to the gaming aspect. Silly gamers!. lol... use a PS2 or Xbox or something.. just dont use Microsoft for computing, its unneccessarily complicated yet still so many people adore confusion, WHY?!?
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(http://www.apple.com/switch/howto/ipod.html)
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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New administrator/owner

Hi
this is probably a dumb question, but here goes; I currently have a G4 iMac running 10.2.8 which I'm about to give my wife (I'm getting a new G5iMac). If she buys a copy of Tiger and does a clean install (wipes out my stuff) will the G4 automatically recognise her as the new administrator/owner? We don't need to share her iMac.
thanks
ian
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Ian:
Doing a clean install or erase and install is pretty radical and intrusive if all you want to do is to set up a new admin account.
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